I expect that a decent amount of sales of these are just people who don’t care replacing their PC.

I’d be shocked if there’s in any way a statistically significant amount of these purchases driven by the “ai features”.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this has been tried numerous times in numerous places, and despite the positive results it only has ever become an option for workers at specific businesses (at best). I’ve seen this article many many times.

There’s been no widespread movement for it.

For as long as companies can’t even handle standardized work from home, I don’t think it’s likely that this will become a norm either.

“Year of the Linux Desktop” all over again.

Watch Dogs

Fun, but sometimes the difficulty seems to be all over the place, particularly with running from pursuit. Sometimes you can lose them in a minute or two, other times the game keeps spawning in new cars in front of you with no way to dodge them without the ones behind you catching up.

Domains you could register an email with them at.

Yeah, I don’t know why they don’t have the normal “what is this” text from their main page at least at the bottom or something.

cock.li offers free email service with no personal info needed for signup. They’ve done this for 11 years, with no major outages to my knowledge, relying only on donations without explicitly asking for them or bugging their users.

I think at some point they also offered paid VPS services.

Very useful for accounts that you don’t want connected to your other “identities”, but where you’ll still need them associated with a real email for things like password resets.

It’s also tor friendly.

If you’re a sucker for side content, there’s a ton of short stories and novellas (even a musical) that the fans have translated: I just got Ending E | The Ark Wiki

Kept the setting alive for just a little longer, and added some more context to the world and characters. Massive spoilers for anyone who hasn’t beat Automata though.

Yep, based off public numbers regarding OpenAI finances, it was estimated that as of a few months ago they spent $2.35 for every $1 they made.

In downtown some establishments (especially if they’re near warm air vents) will play the sounds of crying babies or screaming women.

That’s just fucking evil. Better than using some barely audible tone that hooks into the primal parts of our brains to make us uncomfortable and anxious (those supposedly exist), but even what you’ve said is just literally psychological warfare tactics.

Seriously, the CIA (or the equivalent) during the Korean War used to fly over vietkong areas blasting that sort of shit to disrupt sleep and demoralize them.

Maybe if you’re going to have a username that implies you’re an artist, you should learn to actually make art instead of just using the automatic plagiarism machine.

"I was a mess, quite honestly. This was the peak of Nine Inch Nails’ newfound rocket ship of fame. It distorted my personality and became overwhelming: to deal with having everyone treat you different, to going from not being able to afford a gas bill to show up to arenas full of people, who kind of think they know you. The line starts to blur between the guy onstage and the person you used to be. My way of dealing with life was to numb myself with drugs and alcohol, because it made me feel better and more equipped to deal with everything. My career was skyrocketing, but the scaffolding that was holding me up as a person was starting to collapse. I wasn’t fully aware of how bad it was getting, but I knew, in my heart, that I was on an unsustainable, reckless, self-destructive path.

When I met David, he had been through that. And he was content. He was at peace with himself, with an incredible wife, clearly in love. There were a number of times where the two of us were alone, and he said some things that weren’t scolding, but pieces of wisdom that stuck with me: “You know, there is a better way here, and it doesn’t have to end in despair or in death, in the bottom.” A full year later, I hit bottom. Once I got clean, I felt a tremendous amount of shame, of my actions and missed opportunities and the damage that I’ve caused in the past. And I thought back to the time when we were together a lot, and I wonder what that could have been like if I was at 100 percent. The “I’m Afraid of Americans” falls into that category of me at my worst — out of my mind and ashamed of who I was at that time. So when I see that, I have mixed feelings — grateful to be involved, and flattered to be a part of it, but disgusted at myself, at who I was at that time, and wishing I had been 100 percent me. And it nagged me.

A few years later, Bowie came through L.A. I’d been sober for a fair amount of time. I wanted to thank him in the way that he helped me. And I reluctantly went backstage, feeling weird and ashamed, like, “Hey, I’m the guy that puked on the rug.” And again, I was met with warmth, and grace, and love. And I started to say, “Hey listen, I’ve been clean for …” I don’t even think I finished the sentence; I got a big hug. And he said, “I knew. I knew you’d do that. I knew you’d come out of that.” I have goosebumps right now just thinking about it.

It was another very important moment in my life. I didn’t think we were done. It feels like the loss of a mentor, fatherly figure, someone looking out for you, reminding you that in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision."

-Trent Reznor

If you do, I can’t reccomend the Viva New Vegas modpack enough. It’s a wonderful “vanilla-plus” pack that keeps the feeling of the base game while fixing bugs, improving the balance and leveling curve, reintroducing appropriate cut content, and giving it all a consistently good new coat of paint. And it’s not crash prone, which even the base game has trouble with at times.

I can’t help myself from tinkering further, but it’s the best baseline setup I’ve found since the game released over a decade ago.

There are also sister packs done by the same team for 3, and Tale of Two Wastelands (another mod that puts 3 into New Vegas’s slightly improved engine, which a lot of people prefer to playing 3 on it’s own). I haven’t used them myself, but they look to be up to the same gold standard.

You should look into the Dreamcast conversion mod and the Lantern Engine (lighting engine tweaks) at the very least. Pretty much everything that comes with the “Better SADX” modloader is great.

In short, when they updated the Dreamcaast original to DX, they changed the textures entirely along with most of the player models and broke the lighting engine. Every time the game was ported after that, the textures have gotten more compressed and lower quality, and more bugs have been introduced.

For example, you know the spot in Emerald Coast where Sonic can clip through the wall really easily and drown? Never happens in the Dreamcast original, fixed by the conversion.

So mods that restore stuff tend to bring the quality up considerably and fix bugs. Personally I prefer the DX player models (the Dreamcast ones look barely better than PS1), but you can adjust the DC conversion mod to switch off whatever changes you don’t like.

Oh, and for replayability, the time trial ghosts mod is great. It displays a see through playback of all your movements from your fastest playthrough of the level, like racing games do. So you can race yourself.

Also, with the modloader you get real widescreen. No more inane borders on the side squishing things to 4:3.

Don’t forget that framing things in ways that maximizes emotional response (fear, anger) increases views, which increases ad views, and directly contributes to their bottom line. They have direct incentive to increase anxiety and worry, so everything is couched in scary hypotheticals of varying often undisclosed amounts of credibility.

appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist

I feel this so much in my fucking bones. They’ve been doing that since Hillary’s campaign. I think I’ve given up hope that they’ll learn, considering they’ve had this long already.

So… money laundering and a tool for storing assets in non-liquid form, as usual with the high end art world.

I know I’m welcoming a shitstorm for saying this, but there’s been some evidence of this sort of thing pushing the blue side as well during previous elections. I believe it was found to just be general election interference and dissent sowing by Russia.

I have a strong abiding loathing for Gearbox’s CEO, Randy Pritchford, but the team they have behind RoR2 now seem to really want to do a good job. They’ve been very up front, in a way I only sometimes see with small indie devs, about the process of fixing core game parts they managed to break when they released the core game patch that coincided with this DLC.

I’m still waiting a good long while before I touch RoR2 again, but I feel like it will be fixed eventually. Can’t say that for all of my games.

At least it’s a good NES game.

They sure seem obsessed with it needing to be a black oppressor. Maybe I’m insane but it always gives me the distinct stench of racism. Like they think it would be somehow worse for their enemies to lose to “the blacks”.

And if my Grandma had wheels she’d be a car.

Unfortunately you posted a shitty, arguably racist, excuse for moralistic grandstanding and now we all have to deal with it.

Complaining about people complaining about petty nonsense is, in and of itself, petty fucking nonsense and a waste of time. If you feel strongly enough to imagine it’s in any way useful to try and call out this shit, get off your ass and go volunteer in your community instead.